Repugnance
[rɪ'pʌgnəns] or [rɪ'pʌɡnəns]
Definition
(n.) Alt. of Repugnancy
Typed by Claus
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Contrariety, inconsistency, incompatibility, irreconcilableness, unsuitableness.[2]. Unwillingness, aversion, hatred, reluctance, dislike, antipathy, hostility.
Checker: Wilmer
Examples
- He must be gone within a few hours, though without feeling any real alarm for his aunt, to lessen his repugnance. Jane Austen. Emma.
- My life had hitherto been remarkably secluded and domestic; and this had given me invincible repugnance to new countenances. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Some invincible repugnance to speak of such things to the strange foreign woman had checked the words on his lips. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Ivanhoe expressed great repugnance to this plan, which he grounded on unwillingness to give farther trouble to his benefactors. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But some intuitive repugnance, getting the better of years of social discipline, had made her push Mr. Rosedale into his OUBLIETTE without a trial. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- No, thank you, returned the count, waving away with a gesture of repugnance the cigarette Maurice held out to him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But Rosamond went home with a sense of justified repugnance towards her husband. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Lily knew people who lived like pigs, and their appearance and surroundings justified her mother's repugnance to that form of existence. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- He was brought up in the--' with a shiver of repugnance, '--the House. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- I tried hard to reason myself out of this repugnance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She seemed like an animal of another species, and there was instinctive repugnance on both sides. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Yeobright overcame his repugnance, for Susan had at least borne his mother no ill-will. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This suffices to satisfy the imagination, and proves there is no repugnance in such a motion. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Enough, that I saw my own feelings reflected in Herbert's face, and not least among them, my repugnance towards the man who had done so much for me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Checker: Myrna